Part 1: The Battle for Europe

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.3 • 107.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The decades-long plan to stitch together countries and cultures into the European Union was ultimately blamed for two crises: mass migration and crippling debt. Together, those events contributed to a wave of nationalism across Europe. In a five-part series this week, we take a look at some of the movements aiming to disrupt the E.U. from within. Guest: Katrin Bennhold, the Berlin bureau chief for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading:Before the European Parliament elections last month, Katrin Bennhold and producers of “The Daily” set out on a 10-day trip to find out what Europe means to Europeans today.The results of the elections indicated that the struggle over the future direction of the European Union would only intensify.

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0:26.0	Funny, isn't it?
0:37.8	Is it funny?
0:38.8	You know, when I came here 17 years ago and I said that I wanted to lead a campaign to
0:45.4	get Britain to leave the European Union, you all laughed at me.
0:50.9	All I have to say, you're not laughing now, are you?
0:56.6	I'll make one prediction this morning.
0:58.6	The United Kingdom will not be the last member state to leave the European Union.
1:05.5	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.
1:08.6	This week on the daily.
1:10.2	Us, the European citizens, we are living in a bubble.
1:14.3	Before the recent rise of nationalism in the United States, in Europe, a decades-long plan
1:20.2	to stitch together countries and cultures into a united Europe was ultimately blamed for
1:26.0	two crises.
1:30.8	The UN estimates about 5,700 migrants have arrived in Italy from Tunisia since January.
1:36.8	One of mass migration into Europe.
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